Last updated: Tuesday 21st June 2005
The National Working group on Young People and Sexual Exploitation - Response to Paying the Price
Calling male sex workers - research into sexual assualt and sex work
WMP 10TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY
The 10th Anniversary Party of the WMP was a fantastic success, held on Thursday 2nd December, with generous sponsorship from Villa Gianna.
The WMP team would like to thank all those who attended, and helped make it an enjoyable and fabulous evening, especially our firends from other sex worker projects, and our former and current service users.
Fun was had by all....
The National Working group on Young People and Sexual Exploitation - Response to Paying the Price
The NWG is supporting services for young people at risk of, or experiencing sexual exploitation. It is a multi-agency group of practitioners, managers, policy makers and researchers working in the field. It also works to support strategies targeted towards disrupting, working with, gathering evidence against and prosecuting those who sexually exploit young people. The group encourages discussion between those with different professional expertise in the area and the co-ordination of multi-agency approaches to the work. It aims to contribute to the development of UK policy and practice preventing the sexual exploitation of young people.
The primary aim of the NWG is to provide information and support sharing between individuals, projects or organisations concerned with the sexual exploitation of young people.
The Response to Paying the Price.
Many individual participants and organisations are making their own responses to the consultation document Paying The Price. The following three main points have emerged from recent meetings and discussions between members of the group. The points were distributed to the full participant list of 120 staff and projects and confirmed as an accurate portrayal of the main points to be raised on behalf of the group as a whole.
The following points have been endorsed by the UK Network of Sex Work Projects. The UKNSWP is providing it’s own specific response to Paying The Price. In this it notes that it endorses the National Working Groups response to questions regarding the under 18 age range.
The three main points emerging from recent meetings and consultation discussions
• challenging the inappropriate use of secure accommodation used as a means of containing young people at this stage of intervention
• challenging the increasing use of ASBOs used as an attempt to gain some control over the young people's circumstances.
The use of appropriate therapeutic support work that may involve some therapeutic residential component which can work with problem drug and alcohol use, mental health problems and complex family or care circumstances should be developed in contrast to the criminalisation of young people who have been victims of abuse.
2. In the main, Paying The Price discusses the needs of young people as a homogenous group. The circumstances facing young men and young women can present different issues for practitioners to work with. There is a need for specific training and services in the field that are targeted towards work with young men as well as young women.
Also, there has been an increasing awareness within the NWG for focus on the needs of 16 to 18 year olds which include addressing the need for supported housing and independent living opportunities, education/employment opportunities, sexual health and drug prevention and treatment.
3. The increasing identification of a supposed link between being in care (particularly some residential care) and being vulnerable to sexual exploitation needs further exploration. The NWG have noted that some residential workers feel poorly trained or equipped to work with the very complicated and complex circumstances they face when trying to protect young people from exploitative adults who may target residential units as locations for contacting young people. Without undermining the merits of residential care within the care plans for many young people, further training, staff resources and supervision support is needed for residential workers, police and outreach workers attached to residential units.
16.25
counselling
Is a support service for those aged between 16 and 25. the service is open
to anyone who would like to talk about issues related to sex, sexual health,
sexuality, or relationships. The service offers counselling to those affected
in any way by HIV. Counselling is free and confidential. Each session lasts
up to 50 minutes. Support through counselling is available as a one off session,
a few sessions or ongoing depending on how much support you would like.
If you think we can help, get in touch - 020 7835 1495
16.25@tht.org.uk
www.tht.org.uk/16.25
Calling male sex workers - research into sexual assualt and sex work
Thank you to those escorts/male
sex workers who completed the msw rape survivor questionnaires regarding their
experiences of sexual violence within the commercial male sex industry. A
summary of the findings of this independent doctoral research will be posted
on this web site later this year.
Joanna Jamel, BA,MA, MSc. Forensic Section, School of Psychology, University
of Leicester".
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